CALIBRATION OF RADAR WITH MULTIPLE TRANSMITTERS

    公开(公告)号:US20230333208A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-19

    申请号:US18193716

    申请日:2023-03-31

    CPC classification number: G01S7/4008 G01S7/40 G01S7/356 G01S13/584

    Abstract: A radar system has a plurality of radar transmitters and at least one radar receiver, each radar transmitter having a transmitter adjuster for tuning the output of the respective transmitter, for example tuning the phase of each of a plurality of constellation points of a constellation. The radar system may operate in a calibration cycle by transmitting from a single radar transmitter using the transmitter adjuster, obtaining an estimate of the error in the transmitter adjuster and adjusting the transmitter adjuster according to the estimate of the error. In an operation cycle the radar system may transmit using the plurality of radar transmitters, the signal being transmitter from each radar transmitter being tuned using the transmitter adjuster. Calibration cycles are interspersed between operation cycles during operation.

    COMPRESSIVE MULTIPLEXING FOR RECEIVED RADAR SIGNALS

    公开(公告)号:US20240385287A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-21

    申请号:US18501150

    申请日:2023-11-03

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for compressing radar data. In one example, a method includes receiving respective radar signals from a plurality of antennas; applying respective phase shifts to the respective received radar signals or to respective radar data derived from the respective received radar signals to generate respective coded radar signals or respective coded radar data; and combining the respective coded radar signals or the respective coded radar data to generate a compressed radar signal or compressed radar data

    INTEGRATED RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT

    公开(公告)号:US20230096861A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17948262

    申请日:2022-09-20

    Abstract: A circuit includes a signal processing unit to generate a radar map represented by an array with a first index and a second index, and a peak detection unit to identify potential targets in the radar map. Within the peak detection unit, a first peak detection sub-unit scans the radar map along the first index and stores a first detection bitmap that identifies peaks as a function of the first index, and a second peak detection sub-unit scans the radar map along the second index and outputs a second detection bitmap that identifies peaks as a function of the second index. The first detection bitmap and the second detection bitmap identify the peaks using a single bit. A hardware accelerator processes individual bits of the first detection bitmap and of the second detection bitmap.

    CHANNEL OFFSET CORRECTION FOR RADAR DATA
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230384418A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US17828151

    申请日:2022-05-31

    CPC classification number: G01S7/40 G01S13/89 G01S13/58

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for calibrating a radar system to compensate for a channel offset. In one example, a method is disclosed for processing radar signals with a radar device. The method includes including receiving respective radar signals from respective virtual receive channels, wherein each virtual receive channel corresponds to a combination of a transmit antenna element and a receive antenna element of an antenna element array. Respective received radar data is generated from the respective radar signals and the radar date is processed to identify one or more stationary objects. Based on the radar data, an estimated radar device motion relative to the one or more stationary objects is determined. A difference between the estimated radar device motion and an expected motion of the radar device is determined and a correction vector is determined based on the difference. The correction vector to is applied to subsequent radar data.

    DEVICE AND METHOD FOR METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A TRANSMITTER OF A RADAR SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240248171A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-25

    申请号:US18413280

    申请日:2024-01-16

    CPC classification number: G01S7/4008 G01S7/354 G01S7/356

    Abstract: A method for calibrating a transmitter of a plurality of transmitters of a radar system is provided. The method includes setting the radar transmitter to be calibrated to a first Doppler Division Multiplexing (DDM) pattern and associating each of the other transmitters in the plurality with a respective second DDM pattern. A target is detected by performing radar detection with the plurality of transmitters, wherein the transmitter is operated with the first DDM pattern and each of the other transmitters is operated with its associated second DDM pattern, extracting Doppler Fourier transform coefficients for a Doppler spectrum peak corresponding to the target and for spurs associated with the peak, applying an inverse discrete Fourier transform to the extracted Doppler Fourier transform coefficients, detecting a phase error of the transmitter using a result of the inverse discrete Fourier transform and calibrating the transmitter according to the detected phase error.

    Compressive multiplexing for radar data

    公开(公告)号:US11899094B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-13

    申请号:US17587286

    申请日:2022-01-28

    CPC classification number: G01S13/58

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for compressing radar data. In one example, a method includes storing radar data in a memory, the radar data being stored in a data cube having a slow-time dimension, a fast-time dimension, and a channel dimension. The data cube is divided into one or more zones. For each zone a number of data matrices is selected based on a compression factor. Sets of data matrices containing the number of data matrices are formed and, for each set of data matrices, for each data matrix, the data vectors are coded to generate a coded data matrix. A coding for data vectors in a data matrix is the same and a coding for different data matrices is different. The coded data matrices are combined to generate a compressed data matrix for the zone and the compressed data matrices for the one or more zones are stored.

    COMPRESSIVE MULTIPLEXING FOR RADAR DATA
    9.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230243951A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-03

    申请号:US17587286

    申请日:2022-01-28

    CPC classification number: G01S13/58

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for compressing radar data. In one example, a method includes storing radar data in a memory, the radar data being stored in a data cube having a slow-time dimension, a fast-time dimension, and a channel dimension. The data cube is divided into one or more zones. For each zone a number of data matrices is selected based on a compression factor. Sets of data matrices containing the number of data matrices are formed and, for each set of data matrices, for each data matrix, the data vectors are coded to generate a coded data matrix. A coding for data vectors in a data matrix is the same and a coding for different data matrices is different. The coded data matrices are combined to generate a compressed data matrix for the zone and the compressed data matrices for the one or more zones are stored.

    DOPPLER DIVISION MULTIPLEXING
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20240369679A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-07

    申请号:US18650240

    申请日:2024-04-30

    Abstract: A radar system transmits using a number of transmitters with respective different phase shift keying schemes, the order of at least one of the different phase shift keying schemes not being a power of two. A radar system may carry out a method which may include correcting for angle estimation distortion resulting from phase components injected as a result of the at least one of the different phase shift keying schemes not being a power of two. The method may further include correcting for rotating phases in the values of the transformed data cube resulting from the order of at least one of the different phase shift keying schemes not being a power of two. Amplitude distortion caused by inter-bin misalignment of the ODDM shifted peaks in the Doppler FFT spectrum may be avoided.

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